Students and Schools felicitated at the grand finale of the second season of Behtar India campaign

New Delhi, March, 2019.

DHFL Pramerica Life Insurance Co. Ltd., India’s youngest and the fastest growing life insurance company, felicitated 8374 students and 28 schools during the grand finale of the second season of Behtar India Campaign in New Delhi. The campaign ambassador, Ms. Parineeti Chopra, leading Bollywood actress graced the occasion and presented the awards and medallions to the winning students and schools.

Launched in
2017, the Behtar India campaign is a social collaboration initiative that
rallies different segments of the society together to work towards making their
cities cleaner, greener and healthier. Based on the three main pillars of
Behtar Swasthya, Behtar Swachhta, and Behtar Vatavaran, it supplements the
government’s efforts to provide promotive and preventive healthcare to the
community.

Speaking on the
occasion, Mr. Anoop Pabby, MD & CEO,
DHFL Pramerica Life Insurance Co. Ltd., said “It is our belief that each of us has a role to play towards
sustainability and that is the message we have sent through Behtar India.
Development can be termed as sustainable if it meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
For us supporting sustainability is one of the smartest investments we can make
for our own future. Behtar India 2018-19 has been a huge success and we are
overwhelmed to see the response from schools and students from across the
country. We like to congratulate the winning schools and students for their
contribution to the campaign and the corporates for their valuable support to
this unique initiative.”

Sharing her experience, Ms. Parineeti
Chopra, Campaign Ambassador and Renowned Actress said, “I am so happy
and honoured to be a part of the Behtar India campaign. I associated myself with
this campaign because the cause is close to my heart. We are delighted that
such a large number of students from across the country have participated in
this campaign. These students are the future of our country and we want to
educate them and make them more responsible towards making a Behtar India
through community service.”

The gold medal
in the Behtar India Vatavaran category went to Kalvakuntla Himanshu Rao from
Oakridge international school (Gachibowli), Telangana for collecting 29,482kgs.
of recyclable waste. The silver medals went to three students who are Mehul
Agarwal, Modern School Delhi; Rishab Suar, KIIT International School,
Bhubaneswhar and Yug Vikarm Jain, Vidyashilp Academy (Yelahanka), Bangalore for
collecting 26563 kgs., 21395 kgs. and 16,387 kgs. of recyclable waste
respectively.

In the school
category, Modern School, Barakhamba bagged the Gold trophy by collecting 56662
kgs. of waste followed by DAV Public School (Velachery), Chennai and Shree
Niketan Patasala (Tambaram), Chennai which seized the silver trophies for
collecting 36286 kgs. and 35398 kgs. of recyclable waste respectively. The
Bronze trophies went to Oakridge international school (Gachibowli) in
Hyderabad; Vidyashilp Academy (Yelahanka) in Karnataka and KIIT International
School in Bhubaneshwar for collecting 34137 kgs. , 30,585 kgs. and 24,430 kgs.
of recyclable waste respectively.

During the
course of the campaign, Behtar India Go Green City Summits were organized in 10
different cities such as Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and
Hyderabad among others to initiate dialogue around Recycling. Representatives
of different sections of society including school principals, individual
change-makers, corporate representatives and local government/ Head of
Municipal Corporations discussed various approaches and steps that could act as
a catalyst for a better environment for the future generations. It is one of
its kind Collaborative Social Responsibility campaign that rallies to get
different segments of the society together to work towards making their cities
cleaner, greener and healthier.

Through ‘Behtar
India’ campaign over 807452 kgs. of waste has been recycled that has helped in
saving 1.92 Crore liters of water,
13,667 trees, 7,235 barrels of oil and 35,373 household’s one month’s
electricity. A total of 70,000 Dengue Protection Kits have been distributed to
the underprivileged children as part of the Behtar India campaign till now.